Connecticut western news., 1887-03-23
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Notes and Go.sip-ForeIsn News,
 Nores, Etc., Etc. A band of Ku Klu1, whose operations have cost Rock Castle county, Ky eight or ten lives in the past ten years lost three of it's members Friday night. The men were shot and killed in the yard of Mrs. Eliza Fish, a | woman seventy years old, whom they were | whipping for selling beer without license. | Peter Smith will be hanged in New York, 1 May 5.
 destroying several houses. Two children were Killed, one woman was fatally injured, and several persons were seriously hurt. The pe- cuniary loss is about $1OOOO. President Cleveland was 50 years old on the 18th inst.
 Walter E. Lawton, president and treasurer i or the Navassa Phosphate Company, and also 1 doing business, under the firm name of Law ton Brothers, as dealer in fer ilizers in New York City, has disappeared, leaving financial obligations estimated at from $500, 900 to S1,- Oo,oo0, and IS supposed to have about $20O, ,000 in cash with him.
 John Anderson, the Swede who was under suspicion in connection with the murder of Emma Pearson, at Hills Grove, R, l., has been | arrested as a dangerous lunatic. Benjamin Spandauer, who was an impor- tant witness against Mrs. Surratt, has been | ! subordinatlon of evidence, & business to which, 1t IS alleged, he has long been devoted. | "A civil engineer named Burke testified in | Boston to having given several unheeded warn- ings of danger in the condition of the "Pussy Willow Bridge"
 The mansion of Mrs. Hicks-Lord in New 1orh, was entered by burglars, who carried off large quantity of silver plate, but failed to secure diamond necklace and costly jewels which lay almost within their reach.
 -Hugh Dennison and wife, hotel keepers at Bracebridge, Ont, were burned to death be- fore they could escape from fire. -Proceedings in the second seizure case of Her Majesty Queen Victoria vs. the fishing schooner Ella M. Doughty, of Portland Me-, have been begun ct Halifax, N. S. Seven wit nesses belonging to Englishtown, c. B.. and vicinity, will attempt to prove the offenses of the Doughty's skipper in purchasing bait wi h. in the three mile limit and neglecting to enter his arrival at the Custom House. -Canajoharie, N. Y., will feel the loss of the Reed Manufacturing Co.,, whose factory is a ] total loss from fire.
 The new invention of Rev. P. M Donohue, Of Charleston, ten times destructive as nitro- glycerine is to be called stcarboneted-g glycer- ine"
 Geneva Stoner, aged F years, committed suicide in Lancasta, Pa., by taking dose of rat poison. She gave reason for the act that her mother would not allow her to go out at night.
 An ice gorge in the Missouri River at Bis marck, D. T., has destroyed large amount of valuable property.
 A large portion of the town of Rock Hill, S. C., was destroyed by an incendiary fire.
 An illicit distillery has been captured on the historic heights of Kings Mountain, in South Carolina.
 George G. Sickles, the venerable father of Gen. Daniel B. Sickles, died in New Rochelle, N. Y. He was 87 years of age. He was married in 1881.
 Hon. E. B. Washburne ex-Minister to France, died in Chicago.
 In New York, Inspector Bynes' men ar rested desperado, who, it is thought, may have killed Lyman s. Weeks, in Brooklyn. He shot at two New York policemen on Third thief who shot at the Brooklyn officers on Van Brunt street.
 The London press criticises favorably the performance of Mademoiselle Noriica, the American singer, who has just appeared ;as Vloletta, In the opera of ''1raviata."
 Judge Barnard, at Poughkeepsie, decides suit against the Knights of Honor, holding that life insurance certificate of the order is payable to legatee though other than the original beneficiary.
 The accomplice of burglar shot his conn r. the house they were robbing. The dead man, | when his mask was removed, proved to be 8 constable who resided next door. , A seventeen year old boy hauling bark in | the Sullivan county woods started bear. ! In lively contest on the crusted snow the boy used his axe with such force and efficiency that he killed the brute, and is now the local ! hero.
 The Abbe Carlo Passaglia, of Rome, is dead. ! He was 73 years old. In 1861 he published a remarkable pamphlet in Latin, in which he counselled the pope to abandon his temporal | state and power, in obedience to the voice of united Italy.
 -AMontreal despatch says: Thomas w Wallace, of New York, is here for the purpose of or ganizing an opposition to the Bell Telephone Company. Local companies will be formed in the principal cities and towns of the United . states and Canada"
 In the suit of the Panama Railroad Com. pany tried before Judge Donohue, of New York, claiming S5O,0OO damages for alleged deficiency in the accounts of Ellie Stacey Char Tier and Clement Dupuy it's former employees verdict of S41, ,S75 was rendered against the defendants.
 The Government has begun it's suit against the Bell Telephone Company in the United States Circuit Court, Boston The Suit is to annul two patents held by A. G Bell, on the ground that he was not the orig inal inventor, and that the patents were fraud ulently obtained.
 George S. Oatman, an ex-member of the Colorado Legislature, made a sensational at tempt at suicide in Chicago. Tying up his nose with towel, he placed a tube connected with gas burner in his mouth and turned on full pressure of gas, only to be inter rupted by the janitor.
 The Ames works at Chicopee, Mass, have just finished the equestrian bronze statue o General Albert Sydney Johnston, which is te be unveiled at New Orleans, April l6. Int design is by Sculptor Doyle, of New York The company has been for two months, night
 and day, at work upon the statue.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 During military parade at Calcutta
 trooper shot and instantly killed Major Neill
 Tt suddenly became pitch dark in the
 neighborhood of Charing Cross, London, al
 noon Wednesday. Snow was falling heavily
 at the time.
 still on the increase, 236, ,i04 persons having
 sailed from the various ports in 1886 agains
 only 210, ,S48 in 1885. A disastrous explosion of dynamite oc
 cured in stone quarry at Lobositz, Bo
 hemia All the men at work in the quarry al
 the time were blown to atoms.
 Letters from Prague refer to an earth
 quake on Saturday around Pezibram, and sa, that the village of Birkenberg was destroyed the inhabitants taking refuge in Prague. The strike inaugurated by the miners a , Mons, in Belgium, is spreading to Soignies The men are greatly excited and an outbreal is feared. Extra troops have been dispatched
 to the scene.
 -Advices from Rustchuk state that the re
 cent executions at that place have exasperatet
 the popular feeling in St. Petersburg far nor,
 than the press is permitted to reveal. Tn, clergy are said to be especially aroused, ant
 are strongly agitating the question of inter
 ference in Bulgaria.
 Politicians and diplomats in Prussia con
 tinue to feel the gravest anxiety over the at
 tempt on the CZar's life. This was purely ! Nihilisfic Ialnt In St Petersburcr ,,holoraI